Rochdale

Aims/priorities: As part of Heywood Pride in Place, which is working with the local community to shape a long-term vision for the town from new investment and housing to jobs, green spaces, and better transport, Action Together have set up the Heywood Pride in Place Capital Grants programme. It will support the sector’s resilience and enable VCFSE organisations that are locally rooted and active in Heywood to contribute positively to the Heywood Plan. Grants are available for capital expenditure on physical spaces in Heywood where people come together.

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BBC Children in Need Emergency Essentials Programme is delivered by Family Fund Business Services (FFBS). It aims to provide grant items that meet a child or young person’s most basic needs or are critical to their wellbeing.

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This year, four community projects in the UK and Ireland will receive funding of up to £10,000 to host fun, summer activities in the local community for people aged between 21 – 65 years old. This can include transforming an outdoor space or community garden, running a summer art festival or purchasing sports, arts, theatre or music equipment.

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Thanks to funding from the GM Live Well Implementation Fund, Action Together are offering Live Well: Centres, Spaces and Offers grants to local Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations in the Rochdale borough.

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People from South Asian communities are under-represented in drug and alcohol treatment services, and harmful use is often hidden due to stigma, cultural taboos and barriers to engagement.

A local working group has developed an action plan to begin addressing this inequality in Rochdale. As part of the first phase of delivery, we are inviting applications from local VCFSE organisations to lead one of two small programmes of work that will complement this plan.

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The Rochdale Recovery Micro Fund through Rochdale Borough Council is a fund to invest in and strengthen Rochdale Borough’s Recovery VCFSE sector. It funds groups and projects which directly benefit local people and communities, delivered by VCFSE organisations/individuals with roots in the borough. 

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Thanks to funding from Rochdale Borough Council Public Health team, Action Together is offering grants of up to £5,000 to help the VCFSE sector to support lived experience initiatives and recovery support services to help people start and sustain recovery from problem drug and alcohol use. 

The priorities for grant investment are:

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Rochdale Borough Council created the ‘Innovation Fund’ (‘the Fund’) as part of the Local Welfare Provision programme, which has been in place since the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The Fund provides financial assistance to small community projects each year.

The Fund, subject to funding approval, will focus on achieving:

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As part of Greater Manchester Hate Crime Awareness Week (2-6 Feb 2026) Rochdale Borough Council currently have funding available to support projects that help to achieve the priorities of the GM Hate Crime Plan. Grants are available for events and activities that contribute to achieving any of the priorities of the Plan which are:

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In February 2025, it was announced that under the new statutory levy on gambling operators, which took effect from 6 April 2025, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) would become the future prevention commissioner for gambling-related harms in England, working alongside appropriate bodies in Scotland and Wales.  The levy, which is expected to raise over £100 million, will be allocated across the 3 workstreams of research (20%), prevention (30%) and treatment (50%).